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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. The voice between soprano and alto. Also - in sheet music - a direction for the tempo to be played at medium speed.
Slide
Mezzo
Progression
Piano
2. A drama where the words are sung instead of spoken.
Opera
Key signature
Chamber music
Tone
3. A Boroque dance with a drone-bass.
Trill
Castrato
Rubato
Musette
4. System of notes or tones based on and named after the key note.
Key
Accelerando
Register
Conductor
5. A symbol used in musical notation indicating to gradually quicken tempo.
Sextet
Tune
Encore
Accelerando
6. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Form
Introduction
Nocturne
Register
7. Piece of instrumental music played between scenes in a play or opera.
Concert master
Triple time
Interlude
Virtuoso
8. Tone color - quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
Reprise
Timbre
Counterpoint
Temperament
9. A style of male singing where by partial use of the vocal chords - the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female.
Instrumentation
Falsetto
Dissonance
Tablature
10. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
March
Recitative
Piano
Whole note
11. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Measure
Tablature
Time Signature
Impromptu
12. A short and simple melody performed by a soloist that is part of a larger piece.
Waltz
Cavatina
Sonata
Espressivo
13. Closing section of a movement.
Grazioso
Encore
Glee
Coda
14. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Relative pitch
Pizzicato
Fugue
Instrumentation
15. A short piece originally preceded by a more substantial work - also an orchestral introduction to opera - however not lengthy enough to be considered an overture.
Prelude
Staff
Concert master
Canon
16. The first section of a movement written in sonata form - introducing the melodies and themes.
Whole note
Exposition
Theme
Dissonance
17. A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect.
Soprano
Presto
Octet
Portamento
18. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
Octet
Scordatura
Chord
Reprise
19. Rapid alternation between notes that are a half tone or whole tone apart.
Ostinato
Flat
Staff
Trill
20. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Trill
Temperament
Octave
Chord progression
21. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
EnharmonicInterval
Slur
Polytonality
Chamber music
22. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Vivace
Presto
Trio
Progression
23. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Octet
Slide
Tessitura
Presto
24. Dull - monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.
Minuet
Drone
Voice
Tune
25. A reprise.
Ligature
Septet
Triad
Recapitulation
26. Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
Pizzicato
Galliard
Septet
Cantabile
27. A repeated phrase.
Ostinato
System
Form
Recitative
28. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Falsetto
Register
Harmony
Tone
29. A sequence of chords that brings an end to a phrase - either in the middle or the end of a composition.
Reed
Fugue
Cadence
Instrumentation
30. Two notes that differ in name only. The notes occupy the same position.For example: C sharp and D flat.
Measure
Rhythm
EnharmonicInterval
Tuning
31. A whole note is equal to 2 half notes - 4 quarter notes - 8 eighth notes - etc.
Whole note
Chord
Sonata form
Orchestration
32. A song of praise and glorification. Most often to honor God.
Coda
Refrain
Hymn
Rococo
33. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Monotone
Key signature
Parody
Madrigal
34. Singing in unison - texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
Sonatina
Chant
March
Tritone
35. A complex piece of music. Usually the first movement of the piece serving as the exposition - a development - or recapitulation.
Klangfarbenmelodie
Sonata form
Fugue
Virtuoso
36. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Finale
System
Triple time
Orchestra
37. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Triad
Carol
Motif
Da Capo
38. The tonal characteristics determined by the relationship of the notes to the tone.
Relative pitch
Leading note
Tonality
Ricercar
39. Two or three melodic lines played at the same time.
Prelude
Opera
Chord progression
Counterpoint
40. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Dynamics
Resonance
Opus
Espressivo
41. A single line of music played or sung. A musical sentence.
Phrase
Cantabile
Key
Musicology
42. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Waltz
Madrigal
Beat
Sharp
43. A short and simple melody performed by a soloist that is part of a larger piece.
Musette
Renaissance
Ostinato
Cavatina
44. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Virtuoso
Tonality
Slur
Tuning
45. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Tonality
Leading note
Register
Sequence
46. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Castrato
Voice
Octave
Hymn
47. Slow and stately dance music written in triple time.
Pizzicato
Homophony
Etude
Minuet
48. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Pentatonic Scale
Twelve-tone music
Leitmotif
Falsetto
49. A musical scale having five notes.For example: the five black keys of a keyboard make up a pentatonic scale.
Recital
Pentatonic Scale
Motif
Key
50. A sequence of songs - perhaps on a single theme - or with texts by one poet - or having continuos narrative.
Song cycle
Falsetto
Vibrato
Piano
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